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by sabj 4888 days ago
Have enjoyed watching Adioso develop and evolve over time, continuing to improve. Good job team. But, for me, the lack of additional airline data renders it completely unusable still, to have so many missing - I just can't get the whole picture price OR schedule-wise.

I always felt that travel search was a big pain point that I was invested in solving. It also has some very obnoxious data lockdowns after scale. Anyone here have a ready blueprint for some great resources to test and hack around different travel search and booking engines with helpful APIs? I know some offer odds and ends...

Everything is running extremely sluggishly for me right now - including the wingtip time reported on the page? - dunno if HN is a contributor but FYI! Totally unusable even vs. doing month-wide ITA Matrix searches.

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It seems as if they only search Expedia, judging by the graph's label at the top. Even still, it's missing many cheap and budget airlines.

Whilst I commend them for letting me search over a period of time using natural language, I'd rather spend the time searching individual days on a search engine that has more sources.

Not just Expedia at all.

The progress indicator above the calendar chart shows that we hit Expedia, Cheapoair and Adioso's own Wingtip engine.

Wingtip has most low-cost airlines across most of the world. See http://adioso.com/help/coverage

+1 for Ryanair (even though they are an awful company). You are also missing norwegian which pretty much is the go-to budget airline for anyone living in the Nordics/Scandanvaia (& Baltics).
No RyanAir is a bit of a problem, and I'm failing to get EasyJet results to show on some routes (e.g. LGW-TLL)
Cheap ones from Mexico: Vivaerobus, Volaris and Interjet are missing too.